![]() Industrialists, authorities and ecomafia in the last 20 years (Legambiente 2004 2008 2012).įrom the early 1990s, only in the Campania region, there have been 73 investigations over ![]() Involved illegal trafficking and disposal of waste perpetrated by a criminal partnership of Campania has been the testing ground of a massively profitable operation that ![]() Legal economy and benefits from a drive to reduce costs during the economic crisis” (EuropolĢ013: 3). The illegal trafficking is “intrinsically linked to Waste most of the waste illegally disposed in Italy is produced by enterprises located in “Considering that Campania businesses produce only a small amount of the national special Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Waste Cycle and the Connected Illicit Activities,Įvery year around 30% of national hazardous waste is illegally disposed of (Scalia 2000). 2015: 9) has come to be debated and discussed. The role of organized crime, which acts as an actor of an opaque web of entrepreneurs andīureaucrats who have been able to secure cheap dumping strategies for hazardous waste” 2008 Iacuelli, 2008 Scalia 2000 )įrom early 1990s the “existing link between the waste-related environmental crime and Solid waste for the disposal in both legal landfills and incinerators (Barbieri and PaglionicaĢ007 D’Alisa et al. Sites burning toxic waste in the suburban areas and along low-traffic roads selling of falseįertilizers and composts containing toxic waste substances mixing hazardous waste with urban Hazardous waste by hiding it in illegal or old quarries and public infrastructures construction Waste such as: dumping the hazardous waste in suburban areas and agricultural lands dumping 2013:ĭifferent strategies were and still are used to illegally dispose of hazardous and toxic Offered to provide these services through its own transport company, authorized by the RegionalĬouncilor of Ecology from the Liberal party, Raffaele Perrone Capano” (Greyl et al. Interested in getting rid of hazardous waste at below-market rates, and the Camorrist clan “The Freemasonry was in contact with northern Italian industrialists Meeting had on the agenda the very hot topic of defining the different roles in and compensationįor waste management. ![]() Italian politicians of the Liberal Party, members of the Freemasonry, and heads of the CasalesiĬamorra clan met in Villaricca, in the province of Caserta” (Greyl et al. The starting date of the emergency can be set in 1989 with the Villaricca meeting “when Both will be explained in relation to each otherĪnd in order to provide the narrative landscape where Pianura’s story is positioned. Governo per l'emergenza Rifiuti' (Committee for the waste emergency in Campania, hereafterĬWE)” (Iengo and Armiero, forthcoming 2016). Shifted the legal power from the local administration to the ad hoc agency 'Commissariato di There is “the proclamation by the Italian government in 1994 of the “state of emergency” which Silenced from the public debate for decades (Iacuelli 2007 Petrillo 2009). Industries of the North” (Armiero and D’Alisa 2012: 57) and which has been hidden and Lands perpetrated by a criminal partnership of industrialists, Camorra and authorities” (IengoĪnd Armiero 2016 forthcoming) transforming Campania in the “cheap trashcan of the rich On one hand, “the continuous illegalĭumping of industrial and hazardous waste both in pre-existing landfills and in agricultural Waste crisis” (Iengo and Armiero, forthcoming 2016). “There are two inter-related processes at work in the story of Campania's twenty years long Trafficking of hazardous waste will be briefly introduced, with no intention of being exhaustive,īut to give enough material for the reader to picture a story that is not happening in a vacuum. The wider regional and national context of the Campania’s waste emergency and the illegal To better understand Pianura’s story, a fictional flashback is introduced in the narration process.
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